This document applies to the HEAD of the calico-containers source tree.
View the calico-containers documentation for the latest release here.
Calico can be used as a network plugin for Kubernetes to provide connectivity and network policy in a Kubernetes cluster. Calico allows you to enforce fine-grained network security policy natively in Kubernetes. The video below shows a quick demonstration of Calico policy in action.
To start using Calico Networking in your existing Kubernetes cluster, check out our integration tutorial.
An easy way to try out Calico network policy on Kubernetes is by following the stars demo.
To build a new Kubernetes cluster with Calico networking, try one of the following guides:
Quick-start guides:
Bare-metal guides:
- The kube-proxy must be started in
iptablesproxy mode. This is the default as of Kubernetes v1.2.0.